Conservatism is Un-American

Yeah, I thought it was going to be a two-parter too. Part I starts here if you are just seeing this. In my previous post, I wrote that...

Let's acknowledge the elephant in the funeral parlor. Obviously, this two-parter  (now three ) on Originalism was prompted by the rec...

Conservative ideology is often convoluted and dishonest. Its "simple truths" must be buttressed by increasingly Byzantine rationa...

Edit: This post was originally written before Greenwald went right. The principles still apply. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died a ...

In preparation for my last post , I reread Ta-Nehisi Coates’ excellent essay “The Case for Reparations.” For the most part, it holds up. I...

Ta-Nehisi Coates recently wrote an interesting piece for the Atlantic . It asked why Senator Bernie Sanders does not support reparations f...

Great googly-moogly! Somebody possibly reads my blog! (Outside my circle of friends and robots from Russia , I mean.) A short time ...

I must admit that I have not paid sufficient attention to the “New Atheists.” I suppose I am what one of my friends calls an “old athe...